Other Cool Stuff From Around the World, Mostly By Gina
Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2023
KRCR: New Jersey to become only state with self-serve ban as Oregon gas pumping law goes into effect
KRCR: Pecan farm along the Rio Grande becomes the frontline for border buoy fight
KCRA: Downtown Shasta Lake transformation underway with $50 million 'Cascade Village' development
KCRA: Sacramento's first-ever Black cowboys parade encourages youth activities, education
KCRA: Crews are battling 'fire whirls' in California's Mojave Desert
KCRA: Stockton declares emergency as homeless shelter gets ready to close
CBS News : San Diego police begin enforcing city's unsafe camping ordinance
KTVU: Alameda granted control over 32-acre shipping terminal redevelopment
LA Times: Opinion: Wind farms off California’s coast should be the future of the state’s clean energy grid
LA Times: This L.A. developer aims to tear down homes to build apartments where the city doesn’t want them
LA Times: The median home listed in Los Angeles will soon cost more than $1 million — up 30% in 5 years
LA Times: Global warming is making big(ger) waves off the California coast, scientists say
LA Times: Trash heaps, wild parties and slaughtered animals: Blight invades a beloved L.A. escape
KTLA: Illegal medical lab discovered in California included bioengineered mice, infectious agents
KTLA: Parking scam uses fake QR codes to steal your cash
KTLA: California orders tiremakers to find alternative for chemical that kills endangered salmon
SF Chronicle: Angus Cloud, ‘Euphoria’ star and Oakland native, dies at 25
SF Chronicle: San Francisco isn’t doing enough to protect residents from sewage pollution, Ninth Circuit rules
East Bay Times: Police: Man fled Southern California collision dies when car crashes again
East Bay Times: Man carjacked at gunpoint outside Piedmont home
East Bay Times: As work begins on the largest US dam removal project on the California-Oregon border, tribes look to a future of growth
East Bay Times: Red tide returns to San Francisco Bay, one year after large fish die-off
SFGate: New blood test that screens for cancer raises hopes — and concerns among some doctors
SF Chronicle: San Francisco Bay’s toxic algae bloom is back. How bad will it get?
SFGate: Big rig hauling 40,000 pounds of chocolate catches fire on NorCal freeway
SFGate: There's so much migration from the Bay Area to Sacramento it's creating a 'megaregion'
SFGate: 'Should be left where they are': National parks refute Yosemite's PSA to knock over cairns
KRON: Lanes on Hwy 101 in Healdsburg shut down due to grass fire
Sunday, July 30, 2023
SFGate: Erratic winds challenge firefighters battling two major California blazes
The Guardian: Latest mass shootings in US leave 10 people wounded in Seattle and Lansing
The Atlantic: American Family Life Should Not Be This Volatile
The Atlantic: America Is Drowning in Packages
Muncie Star Press: One man killed, 17 wounded in shooting in Indiana
CBS News : Severe storm brings flooding, high winds, leaving trail of damage through Massachusetts
Fox News: 80-mph winds rip through Washington, DC, causing significant damage across metro
NY Times: 2 Dead and 2 Hurt in Midair Collision at Wisconsin Air Show
Chicago Tribune: 1 woman dead, 8 other women injured after mass shooting in Chicago
: Bolivia and Peru's Lake Titicaca suffers from low water levels
KTLA: Evacuations ordered as wildfire near Temecula grows to over 2,200 acres
KOMO : Wildfire burning in parts of Okanogan County and Canada estimated at 8,000 acres
CNN: American nurse and child kidnapped in Haiti
Washington Post: The quest to produce less trash
Washington Post: Study: Older dementia patients go to ER twice as often as other seniors
NY Times : A Federal Food Safety Case Reveals Latest New York City Rat Horror Story
NY Times : The English Countryside Is a Place of Profound Inequality
NY Times : The Secret History of Gun Rights: How Lawmakers Armed the N.R.A.
The Hill: Democrats balk at Alito assertion that Congress has ‘no authority’ over Supreme Court
The Hill: 4 dead, others injured in Wisconsin after two separate aircraft crashes